Academic Year 2024/2025 Environment(s): Linguistic, Cultural and Literary Perspectives
This edition of the series is run by the Jagiellonian University and consists of four online lectures and a hybrid student conference in May 2025.
Wednesday, 9 October 2024: Prof. Hermine Penz, Graz
"Environment(s) and Ecolinguistics"
Wednesday, 13 November 2024: Prof. Jan Rybicki, Krakow
"Counting Literature. Stylometry, Distant Reading and Other Things"
Wednesday, 11 December 2024: Dr. Enrico Mariani, Venice
"'I'm glad I'm not a hog': Animality and Socialism in Sinclair's The Jungle and Oil!"
Wednesday, 8 January 2025: Prof. Christine Gerhardt, Bamberg
"Gardening as Salvation? Emily Dickinson's Environments"
Hybrid Student Conference on Thursday, 8 May 2025 at the University of Pécs.
Academic Year 2023/2024: Diversity: Linguistic, Cultural and Literary Perspectives
Online Lectures & Hybrid Student Conference
The first edition of our lecture series dealt with the topic of diversity from linguistic, cultural and literary perspectives. After four online lectures taught between November 2023 and February 2024 it culminated in a hybrid student conference on Thursday, 25 April 2024.
Wednesday, 8 November: Prof. Dr. Manfred Krug, Bamberg
“Binary or diversity? A multimodal approach to Michael Jackson's music video Black or White”
Wednesday, 13 December: Prof. Andrew Monnickendam, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
“Why food studies matters”
Wednesday, 10 January: Prof. Dr. Roberta Maierhofer, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
“Communities and Connections: Inter-American Perspectives”
Wednesday, 7 February: Dr. Mena Mitrano and Prof. Pia Masiero, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
“First Person: Challenges and Affordances”
Conference Keynotes
Keynote lecture 1: Prof. Dr. Wladyslaw Witalisz, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie
“Latinx Shakespeare: Carlos Morton's Trumpus Caesar and the power of political farce”
Keynote Lecture 2: Kedon Willis, City College of New York
“Queer Literatures of the Caribbean”
Have a look at the full conference programme(416.2 KB) and the book of abstracts(189.5 KB)!
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Universitätsleitung, der Ständigen Kommission für Forschung und wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs (FNK) und des Universitätsbundes
With kind support of the University Executive Board, FNK (Standing Committee for Research and ECRs) and the University Association (Universitätsbund)